Seafloor Planner 2.4: What’s New?

Lay ahead by number of patches

A new layahead option, Patches, has been added to Survey Parameters – Templates. This option can be used to specify that a given number of receiver patches should be laid ahead of the active patch.

New surveys will default to a layahead of one patch.

If there are not enough receivers available to lay ahead by the specified number of patches, as many lines as possible will be laid. For example, on a layahead setting of one patch, if a full patch comprises 10 x 100-receiver lines and there are at least 1000 receivers available, then a full patch will be laid ahead. Whereas, if there are just 250 receivers available, then two lines will be laid ahead.

CSV export improvements

Additional columns have been added to CSV exports: Receiver vessel task exports now include a Patch # column, listing the patch or patches in which receivers included in that task are used. Source vessel task exports now include a Number Of Shots column, listing the number of shots in that shot task.

CSV export columns have also been reordered, so that if receiver and shot tasks are copied and pasted into one file, the columns will match up appropriately.

Bug fixes and usability improvements

Usability: If tiling is on, tiles are now automatically recalculated if receivers or receiver positions are changed.

Usability: When loading SPS or RPS files, points are now automatically sorted on each line (to achieve geometric order), and lines are sorted geometrically according to their midpoints. XPS surveys don’t sort/reorder, and still obey the relationships specified in the XPS file.

Usability: Obstructions are now obeyed even when they don’t obscure shots or receivers.

Usability: Receiver task tooltip (shown when hovering a receiver task in the timeline) now includes receiver numbers in this task.

Usability: Shot task tooltip (shown when hovering a receiver task in timeline) now includes shot numbers in this task.